TALKING SPORT, THE PRESIDENCY AND Illness
Likewise, if there was one passion that drove his younger self, it was activity. President Tharman said he would never cease loving sports when asked about one aspect of himself that he would never alter.
” I may include music, but athletics came first”, said the leader, who as a lad was engaged in sports, athletics, football and baseball, among other sports. ” I grew up playing sporting every single day, even on Sundays”.
He recalls a time when he was supposed to play sports that day but suffered an shoulder injury at the age of 15. Despite the injury, he insisted on going to sports practice.
” But because I don’t use my hands, I decided to play as keeper, where you don’t need to be using your hands so far, and you use your arms as well”, he recounted. ” So, I love sports”.
Now, he does not do any severe sport but does workout, he said. Does he play golf, but, as different heads of state do, asked Michael Ooi, 19, who has autism.